WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Ohio Republican who chairs the powerful House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Jim Jordan, is vowing to investigate the investigators in the next Congress, telling Spectrum News his committee will look at the work of the Special Counsels who investigated Donald Trump and Hunter Biden.

The Judiciary Committee under Jordan spent two years investigating whether to impeach President Joe Biden. That inquiry found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing.

Biden this week granted his son Hunter a “full and unconditional” pardon, an act he said was necessary to protect against unfair prosecutions spurred by Republicans in Congress.

Jordan, one of Biden’s chief antagonists on Capitol Hill, focused on Hunter Biden in the committee’s impeachment inquiry, subpoenaing the president’s son to testify before the committee.

“We're going to focus on David Weiss in the Judiciary Committee,” Jordan responded when asked if he planned to continue investigating President Biden and his family members, referring to Special Counsel David Weiss, who investigated allegations of criminal conduct by Hunter Biden.

Jordan denied he has been weaponizing his committees against the Bidens.

“It was, it was [Biden’s] Department of Justice. It was David Weiss who tried to give him the sweetheart deal, got caught, and then he ends up prosecuting only what's going to prosecute him for the for the crimes that he did, the gun charge and the tax charges,” Jordan said. “So I don't see how you can allege weaponization when this was the guy who wanted to give you the sweetheart deal, and your Justice Department.”

Weiss began investigating Hunter Biden after Donald Trump appointed him as the Delaware U.S. Attorney in 2017. When Joe Biden became president, he allowed Weiss to continue investigating Hunter Biden as a Special Counsel. In 2023, Weiss struck a deal with Hunter Biden, allowing him to plead guilty to two misdemeanor charges for not paying federal taxes. In exchange, Biden would avoid prison time and receive probation for lying about his use of drugs when he applied to purchase a gun.

The deal collapsed in July 2024, however, after Jordan and other Republicans said Hunter Biden was getting preferential treatment. Biden was then convicted and scheduled to be sentenced this month when his father pardoned him.

“Remember, we wouldn't have known any of this, would have been no need for a pardon, if the sweetheart deal would have went through,” Jordan said.

Weiss is one of two investigators Jordan wants to investigate. The second is Special Counsel Jack Smith, who led two federal investigations into Trump for allegedly trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election and for mishandling classified documents, though both cases were dismissed after Trump won reelection. Jordan has called the investigations “politicized prosecutions.”

How Jordan’s investigations unfold depends on whether House Speaker Mike Johnson renews the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, created two years ago to look at alleged abuses of federal authority in the Biden administration. Jordan also chairs that subcommittee.

“I don't know if it will be a standing subcommittee, formal subcommittee, select committee. I don't know how that's going to shake out. That's up to the Speaker. But there's certainly work that we need to continue to do,” Jordan said.

Jordan said the committee’s work will continue to focus only on Biden administration officials.

“Obviously, we don't expect the Trump administration to be engaged in any of this type of activity,” he said.

Speaker Johnson’s office could not be immediately reached to comment on whether he plans to renew the Weaponization Subcommittee.